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On the accommodation of the ecological question in the Sraffian tradition (2024)
Book Chapter
Dwarkasing, C. (2024). On the accommodation of the ecological question in the Sraffian tradition. In V. E. Schincariol (Ed.), Environment and Ecology in the History of Economic Thought Reassessing the Legacy of the Classics (49-66). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003375425-4

The Physiocrats and, in particular, Francois Quesnay’s tableau économique are often designated as common sources of influence for the classical economist Pierro Sraffa and Ecological Economics. This is particularly apparent in earlier contributions i... Read More about On the accommodation of the ecological question in the Sraffian tradition.

Weaknesses of MMT as a Guide to Development Policy (2023)
Journal Article
Aboobaker, A., & Ugurlu, E. N. (2023). Weaknesses of MMT as a Guide to Development Policy. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 47(3), 555-574. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bead009

This paper addresses the limitations of Modern Money Theory (MMT) as a guide to development policy. We explore two main questions on this topic: whether policies championed by MMT advocates (i) ought to be implemented in low- and middle-income econom... Read More about Weaknesses of MMT as a Guide to Development Policy.

Una reinterpretación eco-marxista de la abstracción formal en Economía Ecológica (2021)
Journal Article
Dwarkasing, C. (2021). Una reinterpretación eco-marxista de la abstracción formal en Economía Ecológica. Relaciones Internacionales, 21-40. https://doi.org/10.15366/relacionesinternacionales2021.46.002

El capital natural es un concepto teórico muy conocido que se utiliza para tener en cuenta el papel de la naturaleza en la producción económica. Su popularización entre los economistas en la década de 1990 ha dado lugar a opiniones divergentes sobre... Read More about Una reinterpretación eco-marxista de la abstracción formal en Economía Ecológica.

Are We All Rational, Optimising Agents? (2020)
Book Chapter
Miyamura, S. (2020). Are We All Rational, Optimising Agents?. In K. Deane, & E. Van Waeyenberge (Eds.), Recharting the History of Economic Thought. Palgrave Macmillan

Rethinking labour market institutions in Indian industry: forms, functions and socio-historical contexts (2018)
Book Chapter
Miyamura, S. (2018). Rethinking labour market institutions in Indian industry: forms, functions and socio-historical contexts. In H. Peter (Ed.), An Endogenous Theory of Property Rights. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315112923

The emerging literature on institutional functionalism opens opportunities for historically and socially sensitive analysis of institutions, especially if it is complemented by a material understanding of institutions and their location within the wi... Read More about Rethinking labour market institutions in Indian industry: forms, functions and socio-historical contexts.

Moving beyond the paradox of macroeconomic stability in Uganda? (2015)
Journal Article
Van Waeyenberge, E., & Bargawi, H. (in press). Moving beyond the paradox of macroeconomic stability in Uganda?. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 33(1), 121-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2015.1021213

This article explores macroeconomic policies in Uganda in the wake of the global financial crisis and following the publication of the 2010 National Development Plan. Despite apparent changes in rhetoric regarding macroeconomic policies by the Uganda... Read More about Moving beyond the paradox of macroeconomic stability in Uganda?.

From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory (2008)
Book
Fine, B., & Milonakis, D. (2008). From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203887110

Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection. The authors show how ec... Read More about From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory.

Theories of Financial Disturbance. An Examination of Critical Theories of Finance from Adam Smith to the Present Day (2005)
Book
Toporowski, J. (2005). Theories of Financial Disturbance. An Examination of Critical Theories of Finance from Adam Smith to the Present Day. Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781845425739

Theories of Financial Disturbance examines how the operations of market-driven finance may initiate and transmit disturbances to the economy at large, by looking in detail at how various economists envisaged such disturbances occurring.